External commands to retrieve current status?

[Eddie]

Hi all,

External commands seem to be mostly for changing and updating. Are
there similar commands to check the current stats on a given service?

At the moment I'm using these shell scripts (named appropriately) that
I've written, which take the host as the first argument and the
service as the second. These return the required info after doing lots
of grep-ing and sed-ing of the status.dat file for nagios, so that my
own app' can...
get_alert_sending HOST SERVICE
get_attempt_num HOST SERVICE
get_flapping_state HOST SERVICE
get_last_change HOST SERVICE
get_last_check HOST SERVICE
get_next_check HOST SERVICE
get_state host1 HOST SERVICE

It's a little messy and is likely to break if the
layout/ordering/anything in the status.dat file changes in later
versions of nagios.
Or is this my only real option?

Cheers,
Eddie.

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